#jaz transmits

[medical-irken-jaz]

well now what?

[After putting out the fires and dragging as much of the debris as possible away, nobody seems very eager to answer your question.]

[Now what, indeed?]

#jaz transmits #story #invader zim #iz ocs #jaz #Lukmarc10 #Ozzy art #Back to our regularly (un) scheduled program

[jaz-transmits-official]

It is 3:20 am, I am so tired.

But instead of sleeping I drew some sleepy boys because I missed them... Brother hours

#official #jaz transmits #invader zim #atariart #iz ocs #jaz #iz #Zim

[stranded-but-here]

Some art I made that I never really posted.

I play dnd so I made my characters as dnd classes. Splek is a bard, Zed is a fighter and Qek is an artificer.

Thems having fun doin a little ditty with Jaz from @jaz-transmits-official !!!

Also, an update: I am considering returning but only because I miss these characters and I hate that I never fully showed off their stories let alone got finished the main arc. If people want I will return :)

#invader zim #invader zim oc #irkensona #asks open #qek

[ask--kirp]

Posting this late but here's a valentines day gift for two of my favorite Smeets-ACTUALLY THATS A BIG FAT LIE ALL SMEETS ARE MY FAVORITE.

The wonderful smeets decorating Kirps face belong to @jaz-transmits-official (Neeps) and @askzelandpen (Pop) They have such amazing art and I totally recommend checking them out if you haven’t already!!

Kirp might be an abnormally big smeet..but really he's probably the same age as the others. Just a giant teddy bear looking after his lil smeet bros. He needs to be big to contain all the love he has for them!

#invader zim #invader zim oc #iz oc #ooc #mun speaks #other irkens! #Neeps #Pop

[almightytallestblack]

Hello! While trying to fix the transmitter Jaz accidentally made it possible to transmit outwards to specific people! I hear you're heading to him? :) -Tikit🦋

“You…”

#Story #the 'Save Jaz' arc! #Here we go boys #invader zim #irkensona #ask almighty tallest

[askzelandpen]

(This lovely art was made by @jaz-transmits-official please if you haven’t seen them you should. They have really amazing blogs like @medical-irken-jaz​ and @the-warmonger-crew​ and is an amazing person in general! please send them some love.) Husha jumps down from the trees above landing in-front of Advert and Sir Chargin. “I am here! Advert Are you okay sir!” They look over sir chargin “oh no that isn’t good.”

“who....who are you?” Advert questioned with a bit of panic in his voice.

“I am Husha sir. I am quite certain being beamed up to your ship would be quicker then just...well  letting Sir chargin bleed.” She proceeds to move a few feet away before pressing a button on her communicator. “I have found Advert, intercept my signal and lock on and beam us up. Advert also had aquired Sir chargin they are hurt badly.” She then lets go of the button and slowly relaxes looking toward them. 

“Who are you exactly? i know your name....but who are you too me?”Advert questions as their antenna sloop to the sides.

“Well i am your bodygaurd and i would yell at you for leaving me behind but it seems like you don’t even remember doing that.” She sighs “You do it all the time. But look at you even with your memory missing you still have finished two of your main goals....you got Sir chargin and pulse back.”

“Wait i can’t exactly leave...Gabriel is...is waiting fo-”

“No they aren’t....We were able to hack into a ship passing by and from what we could tell Gabriel was onboard.”

“I what.....but they helped me...why would they lea-”

“They aren’t leaving they are under the chip and are in the hands of the empire...we would have stopped them but they flew out of range and our main priority was you...I apologize sir.”

He blinks “Why does it hurt?....Why does it hurt so bad to know he is gone?!”

“Sir i believe its because you used to be squintz before he disapeared....and ever since then you still loved him.” She approaches advert and stands their. “But advert can you promise me one thing?”

“As long as you get Sir chargin help....please...”

“Do not leave my side.” (husha is temp avialable.)

#husha #sir chargin #advert #gabriel mentioned #this should have been posted earlier...this is my fault. #friend art #not my art #responses will have no art i apologize... #thier will be no art till the start of the next arc #thank you jasper for the help

[lucent-noir]

// Neeps art and Cat onsie Neeps (which is way overdue to be posted on the blog im shfjd sorry ;; so have reg Neeps as compensation for that lmao) I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! So~ here you go @jaz-transmits-official //

#.not an ask #fanart #Neeps #//Lucy b making the softest onesie for Neeps and thats a fucking FACT//

[noladrinks]

New from https://noladrinks.com/broadcast/noladrinks-show-turning-tables-foundation-jan20ep2/

NOLADrinks Show – Turning Tables Foundation – Jan20Ep2

On this week’s episode of The NOLADrinks Show with Bryan Dias, we chat with leaders and students from the Turning Tables Foundation. It’s an organization that seeks to train underserved youth in becoming bartenders giving them practical skills and assisting with job placement.

Pictured above from left – Bryan Dias of The NOLADrinks Show, Ronnie Richardson, Touré Foulkes, Jaz Bradley, and Faith Shepherd of Turning Tables.

NOLADrinks Show – Turning Tables Foundation – Jan20Ep2

We start things off with some thoughts on when it’s too late to say, “Happy New Year” and what’s up on this week’s show. We also acknowledge Martin Luther Kind Day as well as the upcoming Chinese New Year. We let you know about the New Orleans Bourbon Festival happening in March.

Then, we’re off to Pax New Orleans, a coffee shop located on Claiborne in the Tremé (note – they will be re-opening soon, which is great news – we’ll keep you posted!) for our featured interview with the Turning Tables Foundation. This excellent program seeks to train underserved youth, with an emphasis on people of color, on getting into the bartending profession.

We’re joined by program director and local bartender, Touré Foulkes, one of the program mentors and also a local bartender, Jaz Bradley, and two students, Faith Shepherd and Ronnie Richardson. We talk about the program, including how it got started and its initial funding from the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation as well as sponsorship by Liberty’s Kitchen, a local non-profit.

Also, we discuss the curriculum and training, the mentorship component, and the breadth of education and hands-on experience the students gain. We get a sense from Faith and Ronnie about what they have gained from participating in Turning Tables and where we might see them “behind the stick” in the very near future.

Additionally, we talk about the importance of the program on numerous levels. This includes touching on the need in the industry for skilled bartenders and how, yet, the unemployment rate of young persons, particularly persons of color, is very high in New Orleans. We discuss some of the barriers and lack of opportunity that can be present for many seeking to work behind the bar. Of note, we chat about how the benefits of what having a local bartender in-the-know about NOLA can mean for an employer, too. (As we often say on this show, information is transmitted in bars, especially here in New Orleans!)

Pictured above from left – Bryan Dias of The NOLADrinks Show, Faith Shepherd, Jaz Bradley, Touré Foulkes, and Ronnie Richardson of Turning Tables.

We continue the conversation on our exclusive podcast-only segment, “Another Shot with NOLADrinks.” Here, we continue some of the threads we chatted about in the previous segments. We also touch on the idea on the “front of house, back of house divide” and, perhaps, some news ways to consider that as well as other salient issues such as wages and tipping.

(BTW – that’s just another heavy New Orleans downpour you hear for a bit that gave us pause!)

We close things out with our “Parting Shot” reflecting on Martin Luther King Day and some connected thoughts.

If you would like to support the Turning Tables Foundation with a donation to keep this terrific program, you can do so by visiting this site here.

The map below shows the location of Pax New Orleans. They currently host regular pops-up and are set to re-open very soon! Thanks to them for hosting us! Check ‘em out!

You can subscribe to, stream, and download The NOLADrinks Show with Bryan Dias podcast using the links and player at the top of the post. Hey – we’re now also found on Pandora and Deezer!

Cheers, You All!

~ Bryan

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#Bartender Training #Inclusivity #Liberty's Kitchen #Sustainability #tales of the cocktail #Turning Tables #Youth Success

[moonraccoon-exe]

Hey coon, I’m trying to write an original book and for some reason I’ve gotten bad writers block and everything I write I feel isn’t good enough and it’s putting me in a bad head space and really depressing me. Is there anything you do if/when you have writer block that you find helps you or maybe just give some words of encouragement? Sorry for the more sad ask It’s just been bringing me down. Hope you’re having a beautiful day.

Hello, buddy!!!

First of all, don’t you ever, EVER again say sorry for a ‘more sad’ ask. If you ever apologize again for something like that IMMA BITE YOU >:( U NO SAY SORRY FOR BEING SAD! U NO SORRY FOR TALKING ABOUT IT WITH A FREN! U HAPPY AMIDST THE SADNESS BECAUSE U HAVE A FRIEND U CAN TELL UR PROBLEMS TO!!!!!!

Really, it’s more than just okay. I don’t know if you’ve seen it before, but I’ve said a couple times when someone asks or brings the subject up, this isn’t a happy and safe place because every ask is happy. Even the sad asks make of this a happy and safe place, because even when the ask is sad, you know what that implies? That the person behind the screen got a chance to vent their thoughts. Hence, there’s a little weight off their chest. Getting to talk about what’s bothering you is always the first big step for recovery. It may seem small, and it is, but it takes courage to take that step. And from that point on, it’s snowball effect; it was a tiny movement, yes, but if it wasn’t for that little first movement, we wouldn’t have the big ball of progress that happens later on. 

And besides that, it implies some trust. You’re giving some trust on me, and isn’t that beautiful? And besides that, I sometimes can come up with some advice, or with at least sincere comfort. And isn’t that beautiful too??? So don’t say sorry. I’m here not just for the happy asks. I’m here for both the happy and the sad asks, because, I said it myself, didn’t I? Happy and safe place. And that includes safety to your feelings and thoughts. So don’t hesitate about it, don’t think that I don’t ‘like’ sad asks, or that I’ll be upset about it. And don’t you ever, ever apologize again. Aye?

Ahaha…I didn’t mean to rant about that!! I just wanted to keep that clear. Can’t let a buddy think they did wrong when it’s fine!!

Aye, I see the problem. 

How to get over writer block, huh…

Well, okay, let me add a keep reading here! If anyone else is reading this and wants to see, go ahead. The only inconvenience is that I talk too much, so this isn’t a quick guide, it’s just personal rant trying to help a buddy, but if you’re curious, you click that link c:

OKAY SO FIRST OF ALL

Congratulations on starting an original book!!! WOW, BUDDY, THAT’S PHENOMENAL! THAT’S FANTASTIC!!! Holy moogles above, I’m SO excited and so happy for you!!!! :D

It takes something to start a project like that. Mostly because I know you care about what you’re doing, you’re not just one of those random people that write mere trash not knowing what they’re talking about. I think I’ve never read anything from you, but I don’t need that. From our interactions and the way you write even if it’s just in a conversation, I can tell for sure that you care and you’re GREAT at it. Besides, you wouldn’t be stressing this much if you wouldn’t care a bout it, right? 

That’s your first big hint that should help you calm down and be happier about it; the fact that you’re putting a lot of you into it. All this stress and the way the block is depressing you, all these feelings and all these sensations, you wouldn’t be feeling them if you didn’t care. If it wasn’t something special for you. If you didn’t want it to turn out fantastically.

I don’t mean to say that you need to be stressed and depressed every minute as you work on this, no. It’s okay once, twice, every here and there, but every time that it happens, you take that negativity and you see it from the other side. Because, in the end, the fact that you feel all that is because you care, and if you care, don’t you think that that means that you’ll give the best of yourself?? And that because of that, the results will be AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING!?!??!

I trust in that!!! Sometimes, the more excited you are and the more you care about a project talks about how much effort you’re willing to put into it. I know it’s just a fic, but look at Iggy and the Beast, for example. How I can so easily get nervous and anxious about it, and yet, how nice it is, how much effort and love I?m putting into it. It’s the same. You worry because you care, and if you care, it means you’re working and will work on it with every fiber of your body. And that, my friend, hard work given with all your might…that is half the way to your goal. :)

Now, as for advice as itself on what I do when I have a writer block, that’s pretty tough to ask…

Sometimes, it’s the things every internet page recommends you. Listen to music that fits the mood or scene you’re writing. Take a breath. Brainstorming (i was about to say ‘shower of brains’ ahahahhaha). And they work, they do sometimes.

But you know what I feel you need? The way you describe your block and how it makes you feel, the…essence or vibe or color that your ask as itself radiates. It sort of tells me of the one thing that took me so long to understand.

To get rid of your block, stop writing.

Sounds weird, doesn’t it? Like, you feel you’re too slow at running no matter how hard you practice, and the trainer tells you the best thing you can do is sit down and do nothing. Or you feel like you’re not doing progress with your new jutsu and Kakashi tells you the best you can do is go rest (AHA! Saw your comment on my Naruto post recently!

You know, Jaz…sometimes what we need to progress at what we’re doing is stop what we’re doing for one second. I don’t mean forever. I mean for one second, and by one second I don’t mean that advice of ‘go take a walk and take a fresh breath and then try again’, nope. I mean, three days, two weeks, one month. Not just a minute or an hour. 

Creating isn’t meant to give you a hard time, and it definitely isn’t meant to depress you. Art is meant to be a way to express our feelings, not to worsen them. Art, indeed, has never meant to be a way to heal; what heals us is to vent out our feelings,w hich we do through art, but art as itself isn’t mean for the task. Same for the other way around, it can transmit great negativity, but it’s never meant to build it. And if you’re getting some out of it, then you need to stop.

We have limits. Physical, emotional, in every way we have limits. That includes the limits of our creative process. As much as we love creating, we’re not meant to do it 24/7. Nobody is meant to do anything 24/7 other than blinking and breathing and existing, but no activity is meant for such amounts of time. You tire yourself. And what do you expect to happen when you exhaust yourself but destruction?

Think of it like a physical challenge. Imagine writing is running, and you’re training to jump into the junior leagues or whatever the first professional round is called. So you, OBVIOUSLY, go to train, right? And what do you do to get better and faster at running? Well, you practice. You run. So you run and you run and you run. And then you hit your limits, that point where the muscles are at one movement of breaking and your lungs are all stressed and you as a whole are feeling terrible.

BUT RUNNING IS YOUR PASSION,R IGHT??? AND IF IT’S YOUR PASSION AND YOU WANT TO GET REALLY GOOD AT IT, YOU HAVE TO PRACTICE EVERY DAY ALL DAY, RIGHT?

So you keep going and going.

And I assume you know the whole mess that happens then,r ight?

This whole thing about how…when you keep going after you hit your limits, you start having a backwards effect. Instead of getting faster, you’re getting slower. Instead of running better, you’re starting to stumble. Instead of getting healthier, you’re damaging your lungs, heart, other organs, and your muscles. And when the time to race comes, you’re so worn out, that you don’t make it 5 meters past the starting line before you’re already wasted.

…same for writing and any other creative process, Jaz, my dear.

You can’t push yourself too hard for too long. There’s limits. Writing every day is super healthy, but not for too long that it starts stressing you and depressing you. Sometimes, writer blocks hit randomly or for this or that. But you know what I think is happening to you, specifically? That you’re over-worrying about the book, and you’re so nervous, and you’re working too hard in it, that your brain went “That’s it, I can’t take more. I need a break from this specific thing”, and of course, naturally, it shut your writing spirits down.

And if you keep insisting on breaking it yourself, you’ll only worsen it, because we CAN’T fight against the brain’s orders! Brain wouldn’t block something if it wasn’t for OUR health. And if you insist on trying to write and write and write and write, you’ll be hitting that metal wall your brain set, and when it weakens, brain will put a SECOND, thicker, stronger barrier, and a third and a fourth AND HOW DO YOU PLAN ON BREAKING DOWN FOUR UNBREAKABLE BARRIERS, HM?

Your brain knows you’re tired. It knows this is poisoning you…your brain is only trying to block what it’s started to identify as an enemy. Don’t insist on making it worse. And don’t make of writing your enemy. Writing is an ally, a friend, a sister, a mother, a deity of its own, and it needs respect and love. Not your brain’s hatred.

And I tell you all this from experience. Why do you think the Beauty and the Beast updates take so long in between? I’m rather fast at writing (my long asks show it), so 15k is a thing of 2 or 3 days for me. So why aren’t updates weekly? 

Because I learned all this the bad way. Because I was starting to let writing, my dearest beloved art, transform into a poisoning monster that ate me. I wasted and exhausted myself worrying too much, writing too much, and giving too much, until I started doing it by force, like something that I feared but still had to do, until writing was not my friend but my owner. And no one owns no one here. You and your writing are friends. Should be friends.

Maybe you didn’t notice, because I didn’t say it explicitly, but the fic’s updates were relatively fast, and the one day I started playing Comrades and everything I talked about was Comrades, and then Dragon Age, and the updates were slower. It was because I learned that only when I stop can I continue, as ironic as it sounds. 

And sometimes it happens to specific things. Right now I’m VERY motivated for the Corqi fic, but when it’s about my ask requests or Iggy and the Beast, I’ve got to take these breaks in between. Because my asks had that effect on me too. I would answer 12k to each, sometimes 2 a day, every day…of course I exhausted myself beyond the limits.

So that’s my current advice to you, because it feels like you’re on this one specific problem, Jaz.

I wouldn’t know when it’s the ‘right’ time to come back. I don’t think there’s one specific ‘right time’. So long you let yourself rest as much as you need, then you can go try take the computer and open the document again. If, even before you write one word, it weighs in your mood, you’re not ready yet. So go back to take a break from this project, then come back some other day and try again. 

And I forgot to say, remember creators are always their greatest and toughest judge...and know that you can’t see your work as everybody else does, because you saw it grow. You remember its ugly stages. You can’t see the real beauty of it. It’s okay to correct as many things as you need to feel comfortable, but know that there’s not a thing like ‘perfect’. Not one thing is except math. But when it comes to art? Not a thing is perfect. Especially not to the artist/creator.

Remember, and I tell you this because many art and music and theatre and literature teachers told me in my high school, your art is always a thousand times more beautiful than you can see. It’s not advice or encouragement. It’s a fact.

And those are my advices to you, dear Jaz. I’m really excited and proud knowing you’ve taken up on such a journey, but I worry you may turn it into poison. Do not. Long journeys need good rests, or you’ll stay stuck in the middle and won’t reach the goal, right? So you take it easy. There’s no deadlines. There’s no pressure other than your own. Take it easy; create for the outside, don’t destroy on the inside.

Dear Jaz, I hope to hear from you again regarding this. And if this doesn’t work, you tell me and I try to figure something else out, because, as a reminder, I’m no expert and can only talk from experience!! But it’s okay. If the solution that works for me doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t mean you’re broken. We just operate differently and you need another sort of medicine, and we’ll look for it together if needed, okay?

Thank you for the good wishes and the trust, dear Jaz. And thanks for giving me a chance to put my thoughts in order (I just wrote ‘my orders into thought’ lmao) and to let me reflex!!

I wish the best for you and that original book. I bet it’s going to be phenomenal. :)

Greatest of success, dear Jaz! I hope you’re having a most beautiful night! Lots of raccoon hugs to you, my dear friend.

#coonreplies #coonadvice #coonthoughts #coonrants #not really but i said that'd be the tag for my long posts and seen as thekeep reading line doesn't work in mobile #i thought it good to tag? c: #sashinia2000

[a-contra-indicacao]

o eu contra a novidade

passa um vento todo enrugado e bordado de acácias. ele se esparrama no fundo do quintal (bem onde as bananeiras se erguem e as aranhas tecem suas moradas de peçonha e de silêncio).

deus, deus meu, por que me abandonaste nesta tarde entreaberta? a resposta jaz e se esvai entre sonos e pétalas.

seres de forma indefinida se movem sem pressa pelo piso escuro do sótão: a lareira da sala me transmite suas existências mamiferas, enquanto os homens e as máquinas cortam bem a grama e muito vagarosamente.

testemunhas de deus levam a lição mais velha de casa em casa, de porta em porta, de vizinho a vizinho. tocam campainhas que não funcionam, batem palmas, pois têm, e há muito, um algo a dizer.

porém já é tarde e os ouvidos dos homens já se encontram fechados para o amor à verdade e ao justo e à beleza.

reencontro um papel de versos brancos sobre a pia da cozinha. a louça dorme sobre o granito arranhado. há muito que rompi com o modernismo, no entanto, há versos livres que me caçam,

que me perseguem pela casa com seus mecanismos e unhas de guerra e de paz, de inglória e de anseio

o cio cósmico dos astros me leva (ileso) até a ponta da margem que separa o velho do que é novo e extrai o sacro do comum.

meu eu se opõe à novidade e à tradição de amor nenhum.

#poema #texto #andré mello

[medical-irken-jaz]

OH FUCK- JAZ; HANG IN THERE BRO

He is not dead! He somehow survived the explosion. But this state of limbo he is in is unknown to Zim, even my elite knowledge is- Zim cannot fix this! This Pak has a mind of its own, it would try to kill Zim if he tried!

Oh man, what am I gonna tell Dad? He took that hit for me- An alien saved my life- Does anyone know if there's some kind of- alien anti-venom? Or something? Anything?!

Maybe if we found the thing's body- Maybe I could take the venom back to Dad and he could help!

#jaz transmits #story #invader zim #iz ocs #jaz #Dib #Zim #Ozzy art #Anon #Ask #Snailfen

[jaz-transmits-official]

🌓 tikit and myuki? 👀👀

Tikit and Miyuki

If they'd gotten along, they'd be the most powerful warlord in the galaxy; But Miyuki ordered the destruction of Tikit's home, and Tikit only has murder on her mind. This is the third most unstable fusion, beneath Jaz/Tikit and Black/Tikit. She is too busy trying to kill her other halves than kill anyone else.

#jaz transmits #official #atariart #invader zim #Tallest Miyuki #Tikit #Art meme

[stranded-but-here]

NEXT BATCH OF BLOGS ADJONVOUWRBVOURWRGOUWRG

unfortunately for me, I have a character who I think would absolutely ADORE kirp but because I havnt introduced them yet I had to do....whatever THAT is, although it does make it feel more SPOOKY :)

Also, Qek doesnt like taller irkens lol

@ask--kirp and @medical-irken-jaz OR @jaz-transmits-official idk which one to tag :(

#invader zim #invader zim oc #ooc #my art #promoting blogs :) #i love these blogs so much :D #irken oc #iz oc #irkensona #medical irken jaz #ask kirp #qek #*unknown character thus far*

[nocheestrelladaspost-blog]

"Uno transmite y da lo que tiene dentro, sí tu me das odio, no esperes que yo te devuelva lo mismo, yo solo tengo amor y paz dentro de mí, así que es lo único que puedo brindarte, te deseo que encuentres eso algún día, bendiciones".

-Jaz

[ask--kirp]

((Kirp dresses up as some of the Irken askblogs outfits as a warm up for halloween! He likes all their styles~ 

I would’ve felt bad if I only drew Kirp in just your oc’s outfits without your oc in it-so I did some headshot sketches as well for practice! Sorry it’s so sketchy, I’ll try and make something more complete for you all at a later date.))

Irkens:

@jaz-transmits-official

@almightytallestblack

@zipzilchzeroasks

#ooc #Invader zim oc #Invader zim #Irken oc #Irkens #other irkens! #Zip #Jaz #Almighty tallest Black

[askzelandpen]

@irken-law-and-order I love these characters already @jaz-transmits-official @ask--kirp @goldeneyedviv

#art for others #ooc #out of character #fret #alv #joe #invader zim #no asks for today just fanart